Jump to content
  • Welcome!

    Register and log in easily with Twitter or Google accounts!

    Or simply create a new Huddle account. 

    Members receive fewer ads , access our dark theme, and the ability to join the discussion!

     

Remember when...


Marguide

Recommended Posts

...everyone was saying to wait on the 2012 draft class to pick a QB?

The conventional wisdom was that the 2011 crop of potential QB's was very weak, that none were ready to start immediately, that we should grab Billy Volek, or Carson Palmer, or Donovan McNabb to get us through the year, and grab our long term answer in 2012 because it was loaded with blue-chip prospects.

As it sits right now, Luck and RGIII are the only sure 1st round prospects in the upcoming draft, with Tannehill possibly joining them. Few had either RGIII or Tannehill on their radar last year.

The 2011 draft produced 4 rookie starting QB's. Newton has looked like a potential superstar. Dalton has looked very good and appears to have a bright future. Ponder shows potential. Gabbert...well maybe there is still hope. Locker may get his chance next year, but has looked decent in his limited play.

Where would the Panthers be today had we taken the "wait for next year" approach? What do you think today's top conversations would be?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Where would the Panthers be today had we taken the "wait for next year" approach? What do you think today's top conversations would be?

Fire Hurney!

yeah yeah fug that he ain't no Cam Newton!

Fire Hurney!!!

FML

Who will we take with the first pick in the 2013 draft?

fug You Hurney!!!!!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

We'd be with the 1st pick/Andrew Luck

becaus with out cam Our offense would've been as bad as our D and we very well might've went 0-16

That's possible. Figure we would have selected someone on D at number one, maybe Dareus or Peterson or Miller, so we might have been much better on D.

It is probably more likely we would be picking at 5 or lower and would have to sell the farm to get one of the top 2 guys.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

CoolPepper is right, Smith would have left for sure. After losing a guy like that, many other key vets would probably follow. In a way, I wish Derek Anderson could have started a few games, just to see what he could do. I had a feeling that if Cam struggled (or in this case, never played), Anderson would have been a decent QB for us and may have won a few games as the starter.

I was on the fence about Newton and when Luck decided to stay at Stanford, I was disappointed. Now, I have eaten that crow and am singing along with the kids on the Cam Newton bandwagon, driving into the sunrise... maybe the best draft pick of the franchise and I didn't see it coming.

Best of Luck to the Colts, I'll take our guy.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.


  • PMH4OWPW7JD2TDGWZKTOYL2T3E.jpg

  • Topics

  • Posts

    • Also if it reads funny, I tried to type it as accurately as I could without changing anything, I wasn’t trying to be sloppy.
    • Hey, tbe  first pro game for Bryce vs the first for Cam, nothing needs to be said.    EdIt/PS each showed us exactly who they were, first time. 
    • I went back and watched the press conference from Monday again because I wasn’t really paying attention at the time. He’s telling us what’s going on, but we are just dismissing it as coach speak. Here it is in text.   Reporter 1: When you say with confidence, do you think Bryce is confident taking those deep shots, or are they being called? What is going on with that? Canales: Yeah it’s a mix of all those things. Reporter 2: What needs to happen for your deep passing game to open up a little bit? Canales: Chemistry, timing, it’s everybody. Protection-wise, was.. um, finding the right opportunities, coverage-wise, um.. and then it’s just you know, the timing and me to you factor- getting the guys down there and giving them opportunities to make the plays. Reporter 3: Is it fair to criticize the lack of vertical threat you guys had, like Xavier Legette had a post wide open but the ball got hit up, there are opportunity there but drops, play mishaps, etc. Are you pushing the ball downfield with your play calling or do you feel like there is a disconnect with the production? Canales: In general it’s a group effort, yes lets get some more opportunities, um, to have those plays come alive- I will call them more when we have more success with them and those things come alive for us, but we have to keep working together, we have to keeping taking those shots in practice to make sure we are comfortable with them and uh; certainly for Brad and I to look at the pass game, coverage, and what they are giving us, uh pretty simple. When they are playing single high and everyone is at the line of scrimmage, we have to make the most out of those opportunities when we have them. Um, so that we uh, are a balanced offense which um, does play off of the run game, which we have got going but now let’s get the pass game going so we can really attack with an offense that I visualize for us. Reporter 4: Calling and Bryce taking more shots back last season… why have you gotten away from it if it’s as simple as what you’ve said about kinda getting too reliant on the success of the run game? Canales: By numbers-wise we are about the same, I think it’s just a matter of chemistry, the full group getting comfortable with those things and then making it come alive. Reporter 5: Is Bryce comfortable taking those deep shots? Canales: We will have to just keep growing as a group and make sure that you, we are at the time on task, the trust factor, the me to you factor, the.. all these things you know, and grow. Reporter 6: What do you think will help the trust factor? When you say that do you mean between receivers and Bryce? Staff and Bryce? Or play calling and Bryce? Canales: all those things and you know, it happens in practice and uh, we’ve had these things come alive in practice and we got to make sure they make it to the game. Reporter 7: If you’re not seeing success in the vertical game, is there a way to alternate your approach to open up more YAC opportunities? Canales: That could be a strategy as well, throwing and catching on some of the short/intermediate stuff um, but I do know you want to stretch the field at times and we get these vertical shots called and we try to make sure we are attacking the right coverages and then from there it’s confidence and the me to you factor which happens in practice. So what I got out of that was he is calling it but Bryce isn’t throwing it. It sounds like Bryce is checking out of it for better coverage match ups and / or thinking he doesn’t have good chemistry with some of the receivers. Also how he totally skips Reporter 5’s question is damning as hell.
×
×
  • Create New...